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Advancing Just and Equitable Decarbonization by Quantifying Future Residential Electricity Demand and Household Energy Burdens under Decarbonization Pathways and Climate Change
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To achieve carbon neutrality, residential energy needs—including for space heating—must be fully electrified. How electrification will affect the shape, peak, and total consumption of electricity in r...
Estimating and monetizing the health benefits of improving household energy efficiency in Michigan
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Inefficient residential energy use, which often occurs in conjunction with low-quality housing, raises greenhouse gas emissions and negatively impacts health. Residents may face the “heat-or-eat” dile...
Anti-frost coatings to improve heat pump efficiency and adoption in cold climates
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The use of heat pumps is becoming more common in residential buildings and newer electric vehicles (EVs) because of their dramatic potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Air-sourced heat pumps ...
Assessment of Pumped Hydro Energy Storage potential throughout the Great Lakes
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Wind and solar energy both generate power intermittently. To allow these renewables to proliferate while maintaining grid stability, significant energy storage must be developed. The National Renewabl...
CAS-Climate: Coupling Decarbonization of the Power System with Advance Planning for Integrating Negative Emission Technologies
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Electric power system utilities are engaged in work to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions intensity of electricity generation. The ultimate aim is to reach near-zero carbon dioxide emissions. Effe...
Hydrogen Roadmap for the State of Michigan Workshop
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The University of Michigan Office of Research and the Center for Sustainable Systems are hosting the Hydrogen Roadmap for the State of Michigan Workshop on the UM Ann Arbor Campus.
Hydrogen Roadmap...
A Roadmap to Participatory Design of Nuclear Energy Infrastructure
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Nuclear energy’s powerful potential to advance decarbonization of the energy sector is compromised by a number of legacy issues. Historically, developers have failed to engage host communities as p...
Mapping and Bridging Barriers in Knowledge Flows of How Solar Photovoltaics Affect Rural Community Economies
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The Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) at the Department of Energy - Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) funds research and development in three technology areas: photovoltaics (PV),...
CNAP: Heating with Justice: How can we make electrified space heating equitable?
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Graham Carbon Neutrality Acceleration Program (CNAP)
Carbon neutrality is a global imperative and a top university priority initiated by U-M President Mark Sc...
CNAP: Evaluating Thermal Energy Storage for Deep Decarbonization
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Graham Sustainability Institute’s Carbon Neutrality Acceleration Program (CNAP)
This emerging energy storage solution could offer the best of both worlds—supporting deep decarbonization and kee...
Reducing Barriers to Residential Energy Security through an Integrated Case-management, Data-driven, Community-based approach
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SCC-IRG Track 1
The goal of this Smart and Connected Communities (SCC) project is to explore the efficacy of new social-technological paradigms to reduce residential energy insecurity for low- ...
Guidance for Decarbonization and Sustainable Operation of Battery Systems in Electrified Delivery Fleets
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Problem Statement: Electrification can decarbonize (or reduce carbon emissions from) vehicles if charging uses electricity from low- or zero-carbon sources. Decisions about where, when, and how ele...
How Much Will Electrifying Motorcycle Taxi Fleets in Uganda Help Human Health and Reduce Emissions?
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GRAHAM CATALYST GRANTS
Catalyst Grants are offered in the fall and winter to support a range of short-term, small-scale collaborative activities. These grants are intended to help better define a...
The Cumulative Burden of Air Pollution Health Impacts & Energy Inefficiency in Southeast Michigan
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Graham Catalyst Grants
This project received a $10,000 Catalyst Grant in 2019. Additional project support provided M-LEEaD.
Project Summary
Beginning in July, 2019, the Michigan Public ...
Strategies to Limit Degradation and Maximize Battery Service Lifetime: Critical Review and Guidance for Stakeholders
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Problem Statement:
The relationship between how batteries are operated and their degradation and service life is complex and not well synthesized or communicated. There is a resulting lack of a...
MASTER'S PROJECT: Building Energy Democracy into City Commitments to 100% Renewable Energy
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There are a number of U.S. cities making and implementing ambitious commitments to transition to 100% renewable energy; however, many of them are unsure of how to meet their commitments. This resea...
Solar Microgrids in a Newly Electrified India
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This study set out to examine the relationship between government grid energy use and social well-being status among rural villages in India with access to a microgrid developed by Boond. Our resea...
Expanding the Renewable Energy Policy Initiative (REPI)
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Graham Catalyst Grant
As national concern for climate change grows, federal policy and specific approaches, such as carbon taxes or renewable energy targets, have received the bulk of attention...
Energy Research Internship Partnership 2018-19
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The Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) is a non-profit dedicated to furthering the understanding of Earth systems and global environmental change research in service of society. The mission of th...
M-Cubed 3.0: Training and research under a sustainable roof: A net-zero biological field station at the Taboga Forest Reserve, Costa Rica
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M-CUBED 3.0
Mcubed stimulates innovative research and scholarship by distributing real-time seed funding to multi-unit, faculty-led teams. Through this revolutionary research funding program,...
Green Principles for Responsible Battery Management in Mobile Applications
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Develop a set of green energy storage principles for mobile applications to guide design, deployment, and responsible life cycle management of battery technologies. The Center for Sustainable Syste...